Arlington, Virginia—Megan Grenon stretched outside the rink before a rare showcase of women’s hockey in the Washington, DC, area when a young girl approached with her parents.
ARLINGTON, Virginia—Megan Grenon stretched outside the rink before a rare showcase of women’s hockey in the Washington, DC, area when a young girl approached with her parents.“Yeah,” Grenon replied. “Are you here to watch me?”
The NHL’s Dallas Stars, Tampa Bay Lightning, Carolina Hurricanes, Nashville Predators and Washington Capitals are also trying to do their part to get participation numbers up in those areas—and similar efforts are taking place in Arizona and elsewhere around the league. The number of girls playing hockey in those states is up 71.3 percent from 2011 to 2021.
Nashville director of amateur hockey Kristen Bowness, Tampa Bay hockey development ambassador Kelley Steadman and Carolina girls’ and women’s youth and amateur hockey specialist Alyssa Gagliardi all cited a lack of ice rinks as one of the major hurdles. While watching a women’s hockey event at the Washington Capitals practice facility last month, Sidhu echoed those concerns.
“They’ll be like: ‘Oh, did you play, too? The boys played, but do you play?’ So here we’re still kind of in that grassroots for some of these girls, where they’re not even aware of what women’s hockey is.” Canes Girls Youth Hockey is similarly providing a pathway in North Carolina, where players can go into a development program and play in house leagues or at the junior level to stay in the game. There’s also an under-19 team that can keep girls around longer instead of forcing them to leave the area to go to prep school for hockey.
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